SAG-AFTRA and IATSE, Supreme Court’s Roe v. wade

SAG-AFTRA and IATSE added their votes to the growing team of Hollywood unions who condemned a draft Supreme Court ruling that would overturn it. against Rowe WadeHe described it as “sad and worrying”.

“Everyone should have access to the healthcare they need,” the Screen Actors Guild said on Thursday. Said. “The draft Supreme Court ruling will be a tragic setback to 50 years of progress in women’s access to health care; tragic and alarming. SAG-AFTRA aims to protect and support members’ right to access basic health care. So-called heart rate bills threaten women’s rights and health over the protections women have had for decades. “We are closely monitoring the legal environment around these laws and will not remain silent in the face of this senseless attack on women’s rights and health.”

Stating that the draft decision is not yet a final court decision, IATSE said, “If the final decision of the court is anything like this ugly bill, SCOTUS will reject the 50-year precedent and the will of 70% of the American people. To impose one of the worst restrictions on freedoms in the history of the modern United States. Such a measure directly harms the well-being of our unionized brothers and sisters and their families, and we must therefore respond firmly.

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“We are well aware of the disastrous consequences when authoritarians regulate control of our wombs, bodies and lives by law,” the union said in a statement. “Removing the option of safe reproductive care in the form of safe and legal abortion will disproportionately harm the working class, push unaware fathers into poverty, exacerbate the already unacceptable crisis of maternal mortality and arrest innocent people for abuse of power. biological”. , and suspended too many careers and livelihoods. We come together as brothers, sisters and families to achieve freedom and justice for all. We urge legislators at all levels to immediately protect the reproductive health and other fundamental freedoms of Americans, or they will replace those who do.

Earlier, WGA East and West condemned the draft decision and asked producers not to consider filming in states that ban abortion. Players’ capital weighed in on Tuesday, “The controversy is aimed at canceling. against Rowe Wade “It can be applied to reverse progress made in the field of human rights in recent years, including the rights of LGBTQ+ people who have been attacked in states across the country.”